Author: Thomas J. Watson

Quotes

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

- Thomas J. Watson

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

- Thomas J. Watson

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

- Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

- Thomas J. Watson

Good design is good business.

Good design is good business.

- Thomas J. Watson

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

- Thomas J. Watson

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

- Thomas J. Watson

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

- Thomas J. Watson

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

- Thomas J. Watson

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